[meteorite-list] 1972 fireball

[Alexander Seidel]

"Slip sliding away, slip sliding away
You know the nearer your destination, 
the more you slip sliding away..." :-)

(Paul Simon, of Simon and Garfunkel)

Alex
Berlin/Germany



> Steve Arnold 'Cago:
> >I wonder what caused  it to go back into space?Any thoughts?
> 
> Based on its trajectory, it only  flew through the atmosphere like a fly 
> buzzing the face.  Right around when  it got a good look at Chicago to its
> right 
> side, it decided to skip the heck out  of there since it still had enough 
> energy and wasn't committed around 50 miles  high. (seriously, it did)  It
> then 
> took thirty years to come back with the  PF reinforcements.
> 
> Saludos, Doug